Help me identify a Taiwanese red

Last Saturday, I had a nice session of tea drinking at a merchant's shop in the city where I lived and he brewed a tea pronouced "Jee Hong". I wish I knew the correct pinyin spelling of this tea but unfortunately the tea dealer's English is not great. He showed me the tea bag but it was all written in mandarin characters and same story, I can't read or write in Chinese Anyway long story short, this tea was amazing: hard to describe the smell but quite woody and with a lingering honey aftertaste. It has a golden colour when you hold the teacup against the sunlight.

This guy told me the tea goes along the lines of a famous tea called "Qimenhong" which is a superior tea according to him.

mayayo wrote:Last Saturday, I had a nice session of tea drinking at a merchant's shop in the city where I lived and he brewed a tea pronouced "Jee Hong". I wish I knew the correct pinyin spelling of this tea but unfortunately the tea dealer's English is not great. He showed me the tea bag but it was all written in mandarin characters and same story, I can't read or write in Chinese Anyway long story short, this tea was amazing: hard to describe the smell but quite woody and with a lingering honey aftertaste. It has a golden colour when you hold the teacup against the sunlight.

This guy told me the tea goes along the lines of a famous tea called "Qimenhong" which is a superior tea according to him.

Is there any way this could be Oriental Beauty? OB is considered by many to be the best of the Taiwanese teas. You described the tea you tried as a red tea, but the color as golden. I've had OB that was red and some that was golden colored. OB is native to Taiwan (some fakes do exist) and although not a pure black tea, it is heavily oxidized.

Don't know if this will help, but here's the links to two Taiwanese dark teas that Hou De sells. The pictures show both the leaves and the brewed tea.

Yixing hong cha. The local art dealer told me it is not very well-known tea in China and even packed like that (which is very typical of Chinese) it's still good quality. I loved that tea. He told me he is leaving to China end of next week for one month and is going to bring me a better brand but still the same red. Directly from a small farm.